The president and vice president of Taiwan donated one month’s salary to the earthquake victims. In this regard, the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen says that we hope that the aid will be appreciated by the Turkish people. Taiwan’s prime minister and his deputy have also announced to donate one month’s salary. Taiwan’s government has…
America has imposed new sanctions against Iran. According to the US Treasury Department, the new US sanctions include 9 Iranian petrochemical companies. According to the announcement of the US Treasury Department from Washington, other companies related to Iran in Singapore and Malaysia are also included in the sanctions. Iranian companies covered by the sanctions cannot…
“Aid, life-saving aid, is desperately needed by civilians wherever they are irrespective of borders and boundaries,” he told journalists in Geneva. “We need it urgently, through the fastest, most direct, and most effective routes. They need more of absolutely everything.” According to UN aid coordinating office, OCHA, six trucks carrying “shelter items and non-food item…
In a heartfelt appeal based on his years of visiting the devastated area, as Secretary-General and previously as head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Antonio Guterres said that what had been a “centre of solidarity is now an epicentre of suffering.” ‘Nightmare on top of nightmare’ “People are facing nightmare on top of nightmare. The…
Preliminary criminal proceedings opened last May in Sicily against 21 people charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration in connection with several search-and-rescue missions conducted between 2016 and 2017. Those accused include four crew members of the Iuventa, a former fishing trawler credited with saving some 14,000 migrant lives in the Mediterranean Sea, and human…
Across the continent, cases in January were 30 per cent higher than for the whole of last year. Most new infections and deaths have occurred in Malawi, which is facing its worst outbreak in 20 years. 10 countries affected Overall, 10 African countries are affected by cholera. The waterborne disease causes acute watery diarrhoea and…
Participants in a panel headlined, Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Early Warning System for Global Pandemics, on Tuesday warned that we are witnessing the dismantling of essential infectious disease monitoring programmes, at a time when climate change is driving greater risks to public health. “Any platform will need to include data from outside of traditional…
“Violence continues to take a heavy toll on children’s lives in and around Port-au-Prince, and schools are no longer spared,” said Bruno Maes, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative in Haiti. “As children reel from the effects of armed violence, insecurity in Haiti shows no sign of abating.” ‘Huge impact’ on children “The targeting of…
Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov briefed the Security Council where he presented the latest UN report on the terrorist organization, underlining the need for concerted global action. Mr. Voronkov began by focusing on the plight of victims and survivors of terrorism worldwide. “Because beyond the headlines and behind the numbers, there are numerous people and communities who…
Photo: Anadolu Agency Paris: French magazine Charlie Hebdo has once again published a controversial cartoon mocking earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria. According to the foreign news agency Al Jazeera, a drawing by artist Pierre-Join shows collapsed buildings amid piles of rubble and reads, “There is no need to send tanks.” Social media users are…
